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Originally Posted by BBAdmin
Just ran a quick test on a new Bold I've had for 2 days. After a couple of days usage the device was showing 9.5MB of free memory. I fired up a few web pages and it came back with 9.3MB. I then rebooted the device (first time since provision) and it reported 24.2MB free. Thatxxx8217;s a significant figure and you can read it in one of two ways xxx8211; it may be that in another 2 days the device would have run out of memory completely and crashed, or it could be that the device would have stayed at 9.5MB for weeks. Wexxx8217;ll only know the answer with prolonged use.
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Right. Good point. It also matters what you have on your device that consumes (has a need for) memory. Maybe you are at the threshold of good performance when taking into consideration what third party apps and modules you have on your BB. What if you now loaded that device with Viigo and Jivetalk and YWeather and a host of other apps? Would you still be at that threshold? Or would you have rebooted a day ago?
This reminds me of the earlier days of the 4.5 betas. We all played until we found one that worked for us. I suspect we will do that here as well.
Having said that... That should NOT be the case for a $700 flagship device of any respected electronics company - to leave it to enduser to a) understand the issue sufficiently to work around the issue or b) upgrade their own device once the issues have been rectified.